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A 60-year-old Queens man was hit by a falling tree branch in Bryant Park last night during a freak windstorm that later forced the early closing of the park.

David Cooper decided to take a stroll through the park at around 6:30 p.m. but the sky soon turned dark.

“The next thing I knew I was whacked with a huge branch in my head. I was bleeding all over myself. I didn’t know what had happened,” said Cooper from his Bayside home after he received a dozen stitches.

“A guy pressed a napkin on my head . . . until the ambulance came,” Cooper told The Post.

Park-goers were told to leave at 8 p.m. because of the weather, a Parks spokeswoman said.